[Shinya had always been interested in people. It's part of why he devours books so eagerly, eating his way through fiction and political science and sociology and philosophy alike; they all reveal little snippets about humans and human nature. It's what had drawn him towards Sasayama and Professor Saiga and their seemingly-superhuman abilities of reading people.
He can only hope to reach their level one day, but even with his current skills, he knows he and Gino are on different pages. Gino had cast his thoughts into the distant (only it's not really distant any more, their time is tick, ticking down) future, and Shinya takes a second to re-orient himself in the conversation before he continues.
What does he want? (Gino safe and happy, Makishima brought to justice.) And what does Gino want? Does he even know? It's not going to be easy to determine, but they shouldn't have trouble narrowing it down, at least. Yes or no questions; those are easy to answer.]
But do you want to?
[This time, he's no longer talking about just this morning.]
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He can only hope to reach their level one day, but even with his current skills, he knows he and Gino are on different pages. Gino had cast his thoughts into the distant (only it's not really distant any more, their time is tick, ticking down) future, and Shinya takes a second to re-orient himself in the conversation before he continues.
What does he want? (Gino safe and happy, Makishima brought to justice.) And what does Gino want? Does he even know? It's not going to be easy to determine, but they shouldn't have trouble narrowing it down, at least. Yes or no questions; those are easy to answer.]
But do you want to?
[This time, he's no longer talking about just this morning.]